How to increase soap lather?

[AliOop]

I’ve never used liquid, but I do dissolve the powdered sorbitol in some of the batch water (I warm it up a bit). I think @AliOop has said she dissolves it in the batch liquid before adding the lye. FWIW, it dissolves easily so if there is a big difference, I’d use the powder.

I agree with Dibbles, the powder dissolves so easily and is so much less expensive. I either include mine in my lye masterbatch, or dissolve it in a little extra batch water.

 

[KiwiMoose]

Actually, we're probably all correct!

Simple solve... check the ingredients list lol

Companies love to play, or dare I suggest, mislead, with wording. lol

Here in Canada, "powdered sugar" would be classed as "single ingredient product". Strict laws here. "icing" would allow for something other than "sugar". I've heard it's different in the US.

That info is years old however. And I'm not a lawyer.

In New Zealand the only type of sugar we can get in powdered form is call Icing Sugar. We don't have confectioners sugar nor powdered sugar available by those names. Icing sugar contains 97% cane sugar and 3% Tapioca Starch

 

[squidstings]

In New Zealand the only type of sugar we can get in powdered form is call Icing Sugar. We don't have confectioners sugar nor powdered sugar available by those names. Icing sugar contains 97% cane sugar and 3% Tapioca Starch

Cane sugar and corn starch here.

I wonder how different recipes would end up. I know some people make their Lye soap with UN-filtered tap water and all the unknown additives that contains. Imagine me saying use "icing sugar" instead of "cane" sugar and your commercial batch fails because of the tapioca starch. I feel for some of you fighting that battle. I recently had to switch to an RO system because my regular "distilled" supply, wasn't. Higher TDS ppm than my tap. At least I'm only making my own supply.

All the best

 

[Zing]